Transcriber’s Note

This transcription is based on scans made available by the University of Michigan and Google:

[ books.google.com/books?id=pEUVAAAAMAAJ]

The image used as a cover image is from a scan of a personal copy of the same edition. To standardize a few inconsistencies in place names, the text of the 1922 Swedish edition was consulted. This text is available through the Hathi Digital Library at:

[ hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951p00687609k]

The following changes were made to the printed text:

Table of contents: II. The Money Chest—Added a hyphen between “Money” and “Chest” for consistency.
p. 20: “Hush up, Selma! You must’t talk when you’re facing such danger!—Changed “must’t” to “mustn’t”.
p. 56: The Sunne priest used also to officiate at Åmtervik—Changed “Åmtervik” to “Ämtervik” to be consistent with the Swedish text.
p. 90: Eligible young gentlemen from Sunne—from Ämbervik—now came a-courting.—Changed “Ämbervik” to “Ämtervik” to be consistent with the Swedish text.
p. 112: THE MONEY CHEST—Added a hyphen between “MONEY” and “CHEST” in the chapter title for consistency with the text.
p. 114: You’d better go in and ask for house-room.—Added a closing double quotation mark at the end of the sentence.
p. 130: so that Lars would not dare come with any of his monkey tricks.”—Deleted the closing double quotation mark. The speaker’s dialogue continues in the next paragraph.
p.145: they could hardly be used for a bridal crown.—Added a hyphen between “bridal” and “crown” for consistency.
p. 264: so many gifted persons all living in a little place like East Åmtervik—Changed “Åmtervik” to “Ämtervik” to be consistent with the Swedish text.
p. 269: The Lieutenant had once presented to the Ottenby school—Changed “Ottenby” to “Ostenby” to be consistent with how the Swedish “Östanby” is rendered elsewhere.
p. 285: Deleted the subheading “I” under the “POSTSCRIPT” heading. There is no other subheading in the postscript.

Except where noted otherwise, inconsistencies of spelling and hyphenation have been preserved.